Chinese ambassador to India Sun Weidong’s article, “China’s Tibet: A story of progress” in Hindustan Times [Nov 6, 2019] is misleading and not true. It is only a reflection of what the Chinese communist leadership would like the world to believe. Xinhua News, the CCP’s mouthpiece, was quick to share the same for global consumption the next day. For the…
The November 5th edition of the Hindustan Times contained a piece titled ‘China’s Tibet: A story of progress’ by Mr. Sun Weidong, the Chinese Ambassador to India. Although the article was nothing more than a compilation of the usual rhetoric of the Communist Party of China on Tibet, the timing of its publication was significant in light of 2019 being…
Abstract: Tibet has been an independent state politically and historically before its invasion by the communist China in 1950. People’s Republic of China (PRC) claims Tibet as a part of China on various unfounded historical pretexts, most notably the Yuan Empire [1271-1368 CE], which ruled the eastern part of the Mongol empire. China says that it inherited Tibet from the…
At the dawn of a new era of building dams on the Yarlung Tsangpo, countless lives and ecosystems are being risked in the name of “development” and geopolitics Over the last seven decades, the People’s Republic of China has constructed more than 87,000 dams. Collectively they generate 352.26 GW of power, more than the capacities of Brazil, the United States, and…
The Chinese Communist Party’s seventy years of rule has failed to cultivate its legitimacy in Tibet. As Beijing commemorates the 70th Anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, Tibet remains a sore point of contention for the Chinese Communist Party since its ‘peaceful liberation’. The notion of ‘peaceful liberation’ is best challenged by Professor Tsering Shakya. In…
As the Communist Party of China prepares to celebrate its 70th year in power, its illegitimate and repressive rule over Tibet has had devastating repercussions for its people and its environment. On 1st October 2019 Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to give a rousing speech on the People’s Republic of China’s National Day, expounding the achievements of the Chinese…
As Beijing gears itself to oversee the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China on 1st October, China’s Ministry of Public Security has reshuffled the top leadership of the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) by appointing a big data expert, Wang Yingwei, to lead its cyber security force. Having previously held the portfolio…
Tibetans calling for global attention as the Tibetan Plateau faces a rise in temperature thrice the global average The weeklong climate strike being observed across 150 countries has received a massive support from one of the most organized refugee communities in the world – the Tibetans in exile. The Tibetan diaspora, which has a presence in at least 40 countries,…
The recent news of China’s drive of detaining around 3,500 Tibetan monks and nuns from the Yachen Gar Buddhist Centre[1], currently situated in Palyul County, Kardze Prefecture in Sichuan Province, unveils another dimension to China’s ongoing persecution of minority groups like Tibetans and Uighurs. Looking back at the history of China’s oppression of Tibetans, a similar pattern of inflicting abuse…
Introduction The tradition of reincarnation is rooted on a Buddhist belief system wherein all sentient beings are bound through a cycle of birth and death. The cycle is broken when through rigorous training and practice one could attain enlightenment. The Sankrit term for Tulku is Nirmanakaya. It has been variedly translated into English as the manifested body, incarnation, reincarnation and…
The digital revolution has emerged as a key factor in the rapid dissemination of news and broadcasting views. Within the last decade, social media has replaced print media, signaling a paradigm shift in how we consume and convey information. Due to advances in science and technology, sharing news and information has become less time-consuming, more convenient, and more decentralized. But many…
It has been argued that Beijing’s new confidence in its Tibet policy germinates from the advancing age of the Dalai Lama. The Chinese leadership thinks that the issue of Tibet will eventually die out with the passing away of the Dalai Lama. This shortsighted thinking, however, could prove disaster for China in achieving its long-held vision of multi-ethnic harmonious society….
The CCP rewrites history in order to justify its repression of Tibetan language and culture. In March 2019, coinciding with the 60th anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising, the Chinese government released the so-called white paper, a self-congratulatory document titled “Democratic Reform in Tibet – Sixty Years on.” In the document, the Chinese government compared the socio-economic and political conditions…
China’s development in Tibet has multiple connotations used by different economists, such as, master’s gift, boomerang development, blood-transfusions, imposed development, leap-frog development and etc. Economic development in Tibet is also seen as, an engineered development, a skillfully and deliberately arranged by the Chinese government to fulfill their national interests rather than arising naturally or spontaneously to benefits Tibetans. China’s economic…
On 16 April, 2019 a report emerged of an arrest of a Tibetan student from the Northwest Minzu University in Lanzhou city in what is now administered under the Gansu province. According to Radio Free Asia, a Tibetan student named Sonam wrote an essay decrying the lack of government job opportunities for graduating Tibetan students in Tibetan region. The price…